RÉALITÉ SOCIALE ET COMMUNICATION RADIOPHONIQUE
SOCIAL REALITY AND RADIO COMMUNICATION

Summary/Abstract: Our investigative approach involves investigating the neologisms used in the news on Viva FM radio (a regional radio station in Romania) in the context of the current pandemic of Covid 19. The analysis of neologisms in the medical field gives us clues about the evolution of radio journalistic language. The recent radio language of the pandemic comes with new themes and new meanings created with extensions and deviations of meaning showing a real linguistic dynamic. Globalization as a common experience also applies to the coronavirus pandemic. Comorbidity, isolation, positivity / repositioning, relaxation (yet abiding by the rules), the proper prefixes and those with prefixoids or suffixoids, such as “coronavirus”, “coronasceptic”, “pandemic”, “thermometrization”, “thermoscanning”, “vaccinosceptic” and the current abbreviations COVID, DSP, ATI are just a few terms widely used by journalists from the regional radio station. Without inducing the need for being translated, the term Covid-19 has reached in a record time all corners of the world, as an unmistakable mark, as have all the other terms specific to the “pandemic language” come to be part of the current language of a large number of users.

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